Even the socially awkward Richard Nixon bonded with these misnamed pseudo “bohemians.” He wrote in his memoirs about being at Cave Man camp in 1950 with General Dwight Eisenhower.
Two years later the general was elected president with Mr. Nixon as his VP. Upon his departure from the White House in 1960, President Eisenhower warned the nation about the “military-industrial complex” — a phenomenon he witnessed up close and personal at Bohemian Grove, where top defense contractors party with those in high finance and others cherry-picked to ascend the highest levels of government.